Word: prospect
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...Last year 12,923 arrived from the Soviet Union; this year the government expects between 70,000 and 100,000, and some Israeli officials estimate that up to 700,000 Soviet Jews might make aliyah, the "ascent" to Israel, over the next three to five years. The prospect fills Israeli leaders with joy: immigration has slumped, and in some recent years it has been equaled and possibly surpassed by emigration. Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir spoke for many of his fellow right-wing politicians when he said, "Big immigration requires Israel to be big as well." The Arab world is reacting...
...Board of Overseers President John C. Whitehead, discussing the prospect of renewed discussion of divestment by the Board...
...that sign would be useless without a commitment to enforcement. The police should continue to deter would-be offenders with the prospect of arrest. Eventually, these men will learn that the Science Center is no longer a good place to pick-up, in much the same way they first learned that it was a good place...
More troubling, the prospect of negotiations has brought to the surface intense differences within the black community over how -- or even whether -- to proceed. Despite their overwhelming superiority of numbers, South African blacks pay allegiance to half a dozen movements with divergent goals and ideologies. All will settle for no less than black majority rule, but each has a different notion of how to obtain it. The A.N.C. commands the largest following, especially among the politically active young, urban, working and middle class. Yet many are uncertain about subscribing to the old socialist rhetoric that still colors A.N.C. pronouncements. Many...
With the two Germanys discussing the prospect of reunification, many West Germans want to reduce or eliminate most of those old Allied rights, including Soviet rights in East Germany. Horst Ehmke, foreign policy spokesman for the opposition Social Democrats, calls for using all-European diplomatic instruments to replace the residual rights of the Allies. "If you talk in terms of occupation powers, then Germans will react with feelings of nationalism," he says. It would be better, he argues, to use the 35-nation Helsinki Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe to bring a formal end to the postwar division...